It is a special room that will be dedicated to copies, versions, pastiches and forgeries.
He Prado Museum inaugurated a permanent exhibition with works by renowned painters who imitated the style and technique of other artists to the point of making them indistinguishable: a special room that will be dedicated to copies, versions, pastiches and forgeriesan unprecedented approach to the heritage of the Spanish art gallery.
Room 40 of the Madrid museum will then be dedicated to “ingenious fakes”they said from the art gallery in a statement about the exhibition entitled “In the limits of creativity”, with imitated works by great artists, such as Raphael, Rubens and Titian, a group that proposes to reflect precisely on the intrinsic value of copies.
The room then brings together a selection of paintings linked to Italian Renaissance art, selected with the aim of showing different examples of copying and the motivations for their collecting.
“From the Renaissance until the 19th century, the culture of collecting gave a relevant role to pictorial copies. The Prado Museum has a considerable number of them, having inherited a part of those that belonged to the Royal Collections and ecclesiastical institutions” they reported.
According to the museum, the reasons why these types of works were treasured were multiple, from the impossibility of possessing the originals of famous workseven their own value as testimonials to the talent of renowned copyists.
Some arrived at the Crown simply as gifts and others were commissioned by it to record important works that were going to be given to others.
On the other hand, when the training system was established in the academies, the copy of the great masters was promoted as an essential method of learning for the youngest artists. This practice gained a great boom, especially in the 19th century.
Source: Ambito
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